ArticleClinical and experimental immunology2017
Association of immunoglobulin G4 and free light chain with idiopathic pleural effusion.
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- IgG4-related disease and pleural effusion: a systematic review.Journal of thoracic disease · 2025Review
- IgG4-related pleural disease diagnosed by thoracoscopic pleural biopsy: A case report.Respirology case reports · 2024Article
- Idiopathic Lymphocytic Pleuritis Responding to Corticosteroid Therapy.Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) · 2024Article
- IgG4-related eosinophilic pleural effusion: a case report.BMC geriatrics · 2023Article
- IgG4-related diseases involving pleura: a case report and literature review.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
- Pleural Involvement in IgG4-Related Disease: Case Report and Review of the Literature.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Curious case of the unexplained exudative pleural effusion.BMJ case reports · 2021Article
- Characteristics of pleural effusion in IgG4-related pleuritis.Respiratory medicine case reports · 2020Article
- Pleural effusion related to IgG4.Current opinion in pulmonary medicine · 2019Review
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Abstract
The cause of pleural effusion remains uncertain in approximately 15% of patients despite exhaustive evaluation. As recently described immunoglobulin (Ig)G4-related disease is a fibroinflammatory disorder that can affect various organs, including the lungs, we investigate whether idiopathic pleural effusion includes IgG4-associated etiology. Between 2000 and 2012, we collected 830 pleural fluid samples and reviewed 35 patients with pleural effusions undiagnosed after pleural biopsy at Yamaguchi-Ube Medical Center. Importantly, IgG4 immunostaining revealed infiltration of IgG4-positive plasma cells in the pleura of 12 patients (34%, IgG4
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